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Esmé Hooton
Esmé Gladys Hooton (1914–1992) was an English poet. Biography Hooton was born in Lewisham, London in 1914. Hooton was the author of two collections of poetry: ''City Sonnets'', published by Routledge in 1947, and ''Zoo'', published by Peter Scupham's Mandeville Press in 1980 with illustrations by David Holbrook and an introduction by John Mole. Three poems from ''City Sonnets''—"The Prophet," "Poor Bloom," and "At the Touch of Summer"—were also included by Geoffrey Grigson in his 1949 anthology ''Poetry of the Present.'' Hooton's poem "The Thickening Veil" was set to music by composer Ivor Walsworth, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London during 1955. Though unpublished for 24 years, ''Zoo'' had been featured on BBC Home Service in 1956, read as a sequence with incidental music by Elisabeth Lutyens. Hooton's work was also featured on the Home Service in 1943 and on BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Routledge
Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioral science, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and Imprint (trade name), imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Scupham
Peter Scupham (24 February 1933 – 11 June 2022) was a British poet. Early life and education Scupham was born in Bootle on 24 February 1933 to John and Dorothy Scupham. The family moved to Cambridgeshire and he was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and St George's School, Harpenden. After National Service with the RAOC, he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Career and marriage He taught at Skegness Grammar School, and then became Head of English at St. Christopher School, Letchworth. His first marriage was to Carola Nance Braunholtz, a Classics teacher, with whom he had four children. His second wife was Margaret Steward. Together they restored a small derelict Elizabethan Manor house in Norfolk, where they put on plays and created a garden. Simon Jenkins included the house in ''England's Thousand Best Homes''. Theatre Scupham and Steward started a theatrical company, Phoebus Car. Some of its members went on to careers on the stage. Small press With John Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Holbrook
David Kenneth Holbrook (9 January 1923 – 11 August 2011) was a British writer, poet and academic. From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Life David Holbrook was born in Norwich in 1923. He was educated at City of Norwich School and won a scholarship to study English at Downing College, Cambridge for a year in 1941, where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis. He is sometimes identified as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was slighter than this might suggest (and also ended angrily, though this is a lesser indication). Holbrook was called up for military service with the British Army in 1942 and served until 1945 as an officer with the East Riding Yeomanry. His novel ''Flesh Wounds'' (1966) is a lightly fictionalised account of his D-Day campaign experiences. In 1945 he returned to Downing to complete his degree, which he did in 1947. In 1946 he made a bleak visit to George Orwell on Jura. The actual reason was to see his girlfriend Susan Watson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mole (poet)
John Douglas Mole (born 1941) is an English poet for adults and children, born in Taunton.Poetry Archive (GBRetrieved 28 November 2017./ref> He is also a jazz clarinetist. Mole graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and began his career as a teacher. With the poet Peter Scupham he was co-editor of the Mandeville Press publishing house in Hitchin. He married the artist Mary Norman. His papers are preserved at Cambridge University Library. Poetry Mole has won several prizes for his poetry, including an Eric Gregory Award (1970), the Cholmondeley Award, and the Signal Award for children's poetry. He was a writer in residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge and a poet in residence to the Poets Society in the City of London. He was also a poet in residence for the Poet in the City charity scheme. Mole's many poems for children include "Variations on an Old Rhyme" and "The Balancing Man". Both of these discuss political issues in a way that points out their relevance t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry, as well as compiling numerous anthologies, among many published works on subjects including art, travel and the countryside. Grigson exhibited in the London International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries in 1936, and in 1946 co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Grigson's autobiography ''The Crest on the Silver'' was published in 1950. At various times he was involved in teaching, journalism and broadcasting. Fiercely combative, he made many literary enemies. Art curator In 1946, Grigson was one of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, together with Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, Peter Watson and Peter Gregory. In 1951, Grigson curated an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Walsworth
Ivor Clifton Walsworth (1909 – 2 November 1978) was a composer, violinist, and BBC sound engineer and music producer. Born in London, Walsworth studied at the Royal Academy of Music - he was the recipient of the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1932 - and subsequently in Munich, Budapest and Vienna. He joined the BBC in 1936, later becoming a key producer for the BBC Transcription Services. On 6 January 1937 in Roehampton he married the concert pianist Joan Davies (1912-1982), a pupil of Egon Petri. She often performed his music. His war service was with the London Fire Service and the Home Guard, while his wife served as an ambulance driver. A serious illness led to him taking a less demanding role at the BBC before his retirement. Walsworth was a prolific composer but his music has been forgotten today. He composed four symphonies, various concertos (for piano, gamba, violin and cello), three string quartets and other chamber, instrumental works and songs. He appears to have strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigmore Hall
The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good building acoustics, acoustics. It specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals, and hosts over five hundred concerts each year, as well as a weekly concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Bechstein Hall The Bechstein Hall was built between 1899 and 1901 by C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik, the German piano manufacturer, whose showroom was next door. The British architect Thomas Edward Collcutt was commissioned to design the space. Collcutt was also responsible for the Savoy Hotel on Strand, London, The Strand (since modified) and the Palace Theatre, London, Palace Theatre on Cambridge Circus, London, Cambridge Circus (originally the Royal English Opera House), with which the Hall shares pale terracotta ornamentation. Bechstein Hall opened on 31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Home Service
The BBC Home Service was a national and regional radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4. History 1922–1939: Interwar period Between the early 1920s and the outbreak of World War II, the BBC developed two nationwide radio stations – the BBC National Programme, National Programme and the BBC Regional Programme, Regional Programme (which began broadcasting on 9 March 1930) – as well as a basic service from London that include programming originated in six regions. Although the programme items attracting the greatest number of listeners tended to appear on the National, they were each designed to appeal "across the board" to a single but variegated audience by offering at most times of the day a choice of programme type rather than simply catering to two distinct audiences. 1939–1940: Start of World War II On 1 September 1939, the BBC merged the two programmes into one national service from London. The reasons given include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Lutyens
Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 190614 April 1983) was an English composer. Early life and education Elisabeth Lutyens was born in London on 9 July 1906. She was one of the five children of Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), a member of the aristocratic Bulwer-Lytton family, and the prominent English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Elisabeth was the elder sister of the writer Mary LutyensDalton, James"Lutyens, (Agnes) Elisabeth (1906–1983), composer" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 8 September 2020 and aunt of the 4th Viscount Ridley and the politician Nicholas Ridley. Lutyens was involved in the Theosophical Movement. From 1911 the young Jiddu Krishnamurti was living in the Lutyens' London house as a friend of Elisabeth and her sisters. At the age of nine she began to aspire to be a composer. In 1922, Lutyens pursued her musical education in Paris at the École Normale de Musique, which had been establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts also featuring. The station has described itself as "the world's most significant commissioner of new music". Through its BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, New Generation Artists scheme, it promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the The Proms, BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011. According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 1.9 million with a listening share of 1.6% as of March 2024. History Radio 3 is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Women Poets
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